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Chicago examiner vol xvii no 50 a m sunday Chicago june 17 1917 sunday and^n^y five cents g russia gives u s war pledge japan rejects wilson note insists mm bowsto mikado i reply to note seen as attempt to force recognition of special interest in china britain backs her ally in stand washington june 16 japan has declined to associate her self with the united states 1 in the advice given to china to com | pose her internal troubles her reply to the american sugges i tion that the allies associate them i selves with this country on the principles of the american note to , china was received at the state de | partment to-day the answer follows closely re j ceipt of a dispatch from london an i nounclng great britain has replied ' regreting she must view the chinese situation from a slightly different standpoint than the united states and could not therefore do all the president suggested britain and japan acting in concert great britain and japan evidently j are acting in concert their colla i boration is presumed to be necessary j under their alliance k has been asserted in japanese quarters england has recognized the paramount interest of japanese in china and that similar recognition i had been given by russia under the czar it was established to-day that ja pan's complaint on america's action was not caused entirely as had been supposed by authorities here by the i publication of a bogus version of the i american note japan seeks to force recognition of interests japan's objection was based on the | fact japan was not consulted on the ! note and it is thought japan seized i the chance to insist on american rec i ognition of japan's claim of special i interest in china the united states does not admit i japan rightfully can claim such an i interest in china a circular telegram dispatched to all the provinces by the chinese gov [ ernment declaring the country would i lose its national credit unless it adopted an attitude towards germany similar to that of the united states is believed here to explain partly the sensitiveness of japan jtext of chinese warning to rebels the telegram sent in april reads : 1 by the declaration of our rup ture with the german government all former friendly relations have ceased and we can gain nothing i by inactivity moreover if we | should take 1:0 further steps we i shall incur the displeasure of the allies i it must be pointed out that owing to the distance we shall have no need to take actual part in the war although we will have to join the allies in name 3 formerly we declared that i i witn respect to the chinese policy ' towards germany we should adopt i an attitude similar to that of the i united states of america and as â– i the latter power has now declared { i war upon germany we cannot re j i main inactive otherwise we will [ lose our national a-edit root wins promise of fight mission head tells council u s j is warring for slavs and urges i aid foreign minister for cabi | net assures republic opposes peace petrograd june 16 via lcn i j don june 17 3:15 a m â€” in a stir 1 ! ring proclamation placing the work i f men's and soldiers delegates in council put themselves on record to-day as irrevocably opposed to a separate peace the proclamation : j was prompted by austrian efforts | to lure russia into a separate peace petrograd june 15 elihu root head of the american mission addressed the council â– of ministers to-night he impressed â€¢ upon russia with great force and â€¢ gravity that upon the outcome of the â– war depends the fate of all democra cies america he informed the mln . isters has entered the war with the 3 single interest of conserving the liberty of all people we have already begun to flftht . or yonr freedom equally with our own he uaid ave ask you to tight 9 | for our freedom equally with yours ij cabinet pledges russ will continue fight s j m tereachenke minister of for ' eign affairs responding to mr root on behalf of the council of ministers - said 1 1 the russian people consider war l inevitable and will continue it the 1 t russians have no imperialistic wishes we know you have none > we shall fiicht tosether to ecurrÂ»^l liberty freedom and happinea fu flfl all the world i am happy to say 1 do not v<^^b any morn idea or fnvtor between^^m america and hunÂ»fa to divide us 1 we two peopled â€” kusala fikhtins v tyranny and americn mtandlnk a , the oldest demoeraey â€” hai:d in hand ' will nhuw the way to hnppint-m-4 to i nation great and union root gives message of democracy mr root's iieech follows in full sir president uncl ir -; the council of ministers the mis sion for which i hav i nor to ppcak ib charged by ihe gov nment and people of tlie i'nited states of america with a message | to the government and people o j russia . the mission comes from :. >' v,o '] j cratic republic us memben ara i commissioned anil instructed y a . president who holes m ice 1 as chief executive ot n ore t iian j | 100.000.000 free people by virtue of j popular lection in which mor b | than !â– :. 000,000 votes were freely cast and fairly counted pursuant to law by universal . qual direct | and secret suffrage value ouk freedom , more than wealth j for o ? it i hundred and forty year â– â– our â– â€¢ Ã¼bsllujfrj ; with tht han prrrfilems of self.k s ivi n:iier^^mhÃŸi m n bt.t hak many tr have m^^b lowden in precedent praises assembly by w c i hallowell addresses joint meeting first time in history holds legis lature open to june 29 to call extra sessions if war requires sprixgfield 111 june 16 for the first time in the his tory of Illinois to-night a gov ernor addressed a joint session of the general assembly and thanked it for its achievements in the midst of the whirl of roll calls of the legislature governor lowden appeared escorted by a joint committee the galleries were filled with women in evening gowns the floor was crammed with visitors lowden calls assembly greatest in Illinois mrs lowden sat behind speaker shanahan with her were sirs rich ard j barr and a dozen women whose husbands names are known to every newspaper reader in Illinois governor lowden spoke briefly he thanked the assembly for the con sideration it had given to the meas ures he had recommended in his inaugural address he told the assembly it was the greatest body of its sort ever gath ered in the hundred years of the state's history and that in the his tory making that is ahead he expects the Illinois legislature to live up to the sturd'jy accomplishments of her sons in the past prepared to call emergency sessions by an eleventh hour agreement be tween governor lowden and repub lican leaders the assembly will ad journ sine die june 29 instead of recessinpr through the period of the war the governor will call spe cial sessions in the event emergency legislation is needed were recesseb to be taken it would be possible for members to initiate any sort of measures at any time the assembly came together and the spe cial bills desired by the governor council of defense might ' set back by the conse lling special sessions luer only such matters as r e 1 governor's call film censorship act excludes Chicago in spite of the efforts of a strong lobby the guernsey bill creating a state motion picture censor was passe by the senate 26 to 6 after amendment in committee to exclude Chicago which will continue to oper ate under the funkhouser board other measures of interest to chi cago that were sent to the governor for his signature were those enabling u.s weather forecast Chicago a-.d v-icixity gener ally fair sunday and monday except probably a shower sunday morning rlhlnc temperature fr<:sh southerly winds temperature ftor twenty-four houre ending 2 Â«. ra illehrkt os lowest 43 avengr b6 nwnal temperature lor the day jm sunset 729 j xet>crt on page 5 part vx spain to join allies in war papal report rome june 16 the papal nuncio at madrid has report ed to the pope that spain's entry into the war on the side of the allies is now likely even king alfonso is convinced that it can not be averted much longer it is stated that spain's intervention will afford the best proof that the war is nearing its end with the defeat of the central powers whosfc internal condition nobody know3 better than the king of spain wilson takes food control pending congress action presi dent orders hoover to begin conservation measures washington june 16 â€” president wilson's request for immediate ac tion on the food control bill resulted in the measure being reported to the senate to-day without committee rec ommendation and it may be reached monday a national voluntary organization is to be effected tn which the women of the country will play an impor tant part herbert c hoover whom the president has appointed food ad ministrator will head this organiza tion the president made public to-day the following letter he wrote to mr hoover june 12 must begin action now my dear mr hoover it seems to me that the inauguration of that portion of the plan for food admin istration which contemplates a na tional mobilization of the great voluntary forces of the country which are ready to work towards saving food and eliminating waste admits of no further delay the approaching harvesting the immediate necessity for wise use and saving not only in food but in all other expenditures the many undirected and overlapping efforts being made towards this end all | press for national direction and in ispiration the women of the nation are al ready earnestly seeking to do their part in this our greatest struggle maintenance of our in ternal ideals and in no direction can they so greatly assist as by enlisting in the service of the food administration and cheerfully ac cepting its direction and advice to provide adequate supplies for the coming year in of absolutely vital importance to the conduct of the war urges dealers to assist i trust therefore that the worn j en of the country will not only re spond to our appeal and accept the pledge to the food administration which you are proposing but that all men also who are engaged in the personal distribution of foods will co-operate with the same earn estness and in the same spirit i give you full authority to under take any step necessary for the proper organization and stimula tion of their efforts cordially and sincerely woodrow wilson income tax in u s yields 330,565,628 washington june ic t e1 e graphed reports to tiie secretary of the treasury to-day indicate that the receipts from the income tax for the fiscal year up to june 15 inclusive were 330 565 628 j0 these figures include 170,037,0.'t9.559 from corpora tions and 160.525,558.21 from indi viduals the first Illinois district in which Chicago is situated shows tv total of 22,9t7,986 of which 10,226 415 is due frjkn individuals cellar yields ruth cruger's bound body roped crushed remains of miss ing n y high school girl hidden under cocchi's shop suspected man located in italy wife resists search attempt made to cover crime evidence new york june 16 â€” the mys tery of ruth cruger was solved to day her body was found under the flooring of the basement workshop of alfredo coochi into which she walked last february to havo her skates repaired the winsome seventeen-year-old schoolgirl for whom the police of every city in the country including Chicago have sought waa murdered brutally when dug from the cellar the body was dressed as the girl had been j the ady she left home the hat j was still on the head and the gloves on the hands but the arms were bound a rough towel wound around the head and an attempt had been made to destroy the body with acid every trinket and detail of dress was in place save where in her struggles in the semi-darkness of the basement her clothes had been torn there was no doubt of her iden tity her father clinched it with a glance at a gold watch he had given her on her birthday woman clears mystery the mystery th:Â»t baffled detectives was solved by a woman who refused to give up the search mrs grace humiston a family friend persisted in believing coochi killed ruth and insisted atl ast on digging beneath the basement of the coochi work shop oooehi the first man arrested after theg irl's disappearance bluffed his way to freedom he convinced the police of his innocencea nd was re leased he fled to italy and is still there hisw ife who remained in the little bicycle repair shop has in sisted he was innocent she threw every obstacle in the way of digging under the basement only two days ago she had the laborers employed by mrs humiston ejected then she si.ld the store and there was a chance to dig di'rigd 10 feet deep the body was buried tea feet be low the concrete flooring with it lay a blood-stained suit of motor cycle togs and around it had been packed rags and bits of clothing and refuse of every description to within four feet of the concrete flooring the body was weighted down with a mixture of earth ashes and ! debris mrs cruger has not been informed | of the finding of the body as she has been ill the father is heartbroken he was led away by sympathizing friends my god my daughter was all he could say ruth cruger the daughter of well to-do mr and mrs henry d cruger utaght a sunday school class and attended wadleigh high school she left home the afternoon of feb ruary 13 to take her skates to cocchi's to be sharpened two poucbmeem on rack she did not return and next morn ing search was begun for her two days later cocchi disappeared it was reported to-night two po licemen are involved they are said to have been friends of cocchi cocchi has been traced to bologna italy steps have been taken to bring him back to this country he cannot be extradited but district i attorney svrann hopes the italian i authorities iio that italy is a.i ally lof the united states will permit this co^j^^^bring bacjt cqcch cermak being i nvesti gated by the judges gemmill and municipal court bailiff chief near fist battle as jurist charges irregularities 50 witnesses are called by com mittee named by bench 150 to be heard lie is passed charges of misapplication of funds made by judge william gemmill of the criminal court against anton j cermalc chief bailiff of the munici pal court were investigated yester day by a special committee of judges on monday the investigation will be continued and at least 150 witnesses it is said will be called a physical encounter between jui'jare uemmill ar.(3 srmalc was nar rowly averted friday when the charges first were made at a meet ing of all the Chicago judges i have received good evidence said judge gemill that funds paid into the bailiffs protective associa tion by its members have been with held by cermak committee named the charges created a btlr among the other judges it was at once agreed that a thorough investigation should be made and a committee was appointed the members are chief justice harry olson of the municipal court and judges stelk hayesa nd fry while the judges were stillin ses sion someone communicated what had happened to cermak he made im mediately for the meeting place room 917 in the city hall and demanded admittance he was kept out but waited near the door until judge gemmill came out i understand that you have charged me with irregularities said cermak in a menacing manner i certainlydid retorted the judge and i repeat it are near blows it's a lie.v cried cermalc you're a liar the judge returned cÂ«rma.k advanced with clenched fist the judge doubled his and waited but just then chief justice olson came between the two and hostilities were averted the first meeting of the in resti gating committee was held yesterday and fifty members of the bailiffs organization were questioned the following statement was issued by cermak last night judge gemmill made the charges because he is to be mayor thomp son's candidate for chief justice o the municipal court when judge olson's term expires two years ago while i was out of the city a collection was taken up among the bailiffs to buy me a diamond star a bailiff attached to judge genimill's court was as sessed 3 â€¢ jttdge objected charge the judge complained when i returned to the city 1 ordered that all the money be returned to the donors members of the bailiffs asso ciation pay 50 cents monthly to the association once a year a picnic is given and thep roceeds which are trom 1,000 to 2,000 also are placed into the association's funds as soon ts i learned of the charges 1 demanded an immediate investigation i am secretary of the united so cieties an organization that was riven to understand by judge gem mill's bailiff when he was a can didate a little more than four years ago that he was in harmony witli the principle we stand for we supported judge gemmill during his campaign s.nce then he has preached pro hibition from the pulpit we feel that h has double crossed gur organization in our bullftio^kre have made statements th^^^v.ci kis attack is a re zeppelin shot down in raid on england london june 17 â€” german air ships made a raid on the east and southeast coast of england early this morning one zeppelin was brought down in flames ac cording to the official report one raider dropped bombs in kent pershing at french front ready to fight confers with general petain british take rheims trenches paris june 16 â€” general john j i pershing the american commander j reached the front to-day he con j erred with general petain com mander in chief of the french ar mies at french headquarisrs the chamber of deputies author ized the remission of all military punishments and an allowance of a j supplementary litre of wine in honor i of the arrival of the american of | ficers anxious to fight during his stay in paris general perahinp was lionized as the man of i the hour i am a soldier and i am here to i fight general pershing told his friends the quicker i get into action the better pleased i will bo genera 1 . pershing has had nu merous requests from americans allied armied for transfer to the american arms many american civilians in france are trying to enlist . no public speech since hte begin ning of the war has so readily touched french paginations as pres , ident wilson's flag day address wilson's speech praised all the newspapers print the speech verbatim under double column head ings the matin says the discourse is certainly the moÃŸt beautiful the clearest and most instructive that he has pro nounced nothintr is more fortifying to us french than to see rising in the world's greatest democracy i on a clear vision of the future alfred capus writes in the figaro there is in president wilson's discourse something particularly new and powerful it 1.4 an analy sis of the present situation in ger i many and a vision of the future j which shows extraordinary pene tration ex-king constantine quits soil of greece london june 16 â€” athens dis patches state that former king con stantlne the queen and crown prince left greecian soil to-day a proc lamation in athens by m jonnart high commissioner for the allies who effected the abdication of constan tine announced to the greek nation the raising of the blockade frick pays 500,000 for prized art pieces new york june 16 â€” henry c frick has acquired a highly prized suite of boucher tapestry furniture a bronze portrait bust of guido d'arezzo by lombard and a six teenth century venetian bust of an tonio gallus by sansovino the cost is said o be 500,000 100,000 bibles with t r message to army new york june 16 â€” a war mes sage from theodore roosevelt will be inserted in each of the 100,000 i biblof to be presented by the new i york bible society to all american i soldiers trho pro to franco germany urged to battle for full indemnity a msterdam june 16 1n ad *Â» dressing the second chamber of saxony on thursday the fi nance minister declared the peo pel must not regard the expendi ture of billions of marks as a burden if they desired to fulfill the great tasks ahead when it was remembered that the war had been forced jfpon them and that the empire's ruler had done everything to prevent it the minister said germany had the claim before god on the ground of justice to full indemni fication that should be the great repara tion he declared which president wilson had proclaimed as the right of the victor russia expels pleace plotter swiss socialist ordred out of country as tool in new german offer petrograd june 16 â€” robert grimm a swiss socialist has ween ordered from russia for his part in the new german attempt to con clude separate peace with russia grimm woh has been playing a prominent role here as the mouth piece of the pacifist international ists denied implication but his ex planation did not satisfy the social ist cabinet members stockholm sweden june 16 germany has made an offer of peace to russia on extremely liberal terms according to the social demokraten the offer was made through mem bers of the swiss federal council simultaneously borne dispatches ( assr-rted the federal council seeing â– no chance of success refused to take i the initiation in peace proposals presumably to disavow efforts indi vidual members may make sext by swiss envoy without qualification the social demokraten publishes the translation i ol a telegram said to have been sent in cipher from the political depart ment of the swiss-federal council to e odier the swiss minister at pe trograd it is dated at bern june 6 and says hoffman a niriuher of the feder al conned authorize you to makr to c-rlnim in liustian socialist pro fessor who returned to russia from switzerland after the revolu tion the following oral communi cations iermany will not undertake nit offensive so lone ax an nrrnnÃŸc [ ment with hus*ln seem possible | after convernntions with nn linnor | tant iiitminssf i am convinced that ; germany aims at a peace with ; russia honorable to both parties with intimate economic mill com mercial relations and financial sup i port to place russia once afraln on ' her feet restititiox provided o interference in the domestic affairs of riixklii n entente cur dinle on poland lithuania and courland in view r the rclnlloi shlp between tlie peoples resti tution of the occupied provinces and l'.Â«i-.i:i on the other hand to klvc back to austria the provinces which xhe has been able to take orville wright is given d sc degree cincinnati 0 june 16 â€” orv:i wright the avlator i.ls awarded tha uetjree of doctor â– â– . inni^^by the univertity j clnclji^^b^^^b j â€” â€” ' , i continued on 6th page 7t n column m final edition (_) this edition consists of (^ j /^^ iâ€”xeivj..1 â€” xeivj 3 â€” city lille s p ] a mtns drama i i 3 automobiles hovlrn sports 1 â€” want ada 4 â€” editorial financial l_j feature real estate i l ( society 7 â€” magulne fiction s â€” comics i i

Chicago examiner vol xvii no 50 a m sunday Chicago june 17 1917 sunday and^n^y five cents g russia gives u s war pledge japan rejects wilson note insists mm bowsto mikado i reply to note seen as attempt to force recognition of special interest in china britain backs her ally in stand washington june 16 japan has declined to associate her self with the united states 1 in the advice given to china to com | pose her internal troubles her reply to the american sugges i tion that the allies associate them i selves with this country on the principles of the american note to , china was received at the state de | partment to-day the answer follows closely re j ceipt of a dispatch from london an i nounclng great britain has replied ' regreting she must view the chinese situation from a slightly different standpoint than the united states and could not therefore do all the president suggested britain and japan acting in concert great britain and japan evidently j are acting in concert their colla i boration is presumed to be necessary j under their alliance k has been asserted in japanese quarters england has recognized the paramount interest of japanese in china and that similar recognition i had been given by russia under the czar it was established to-day that ja pan's complaint on america's action was not caused entirely as had been supposed by authorities here by the i publication of a bogus version of the i american note japan seeks to force recognition of interests japan's objection was based on the | fact japan was not consulted on the ! note and it is thought japan seized i the chance to insist on american rec i ognition of japan's claim of special i interest in china the united states does not admit i japan rightfully can claim such an i interest in china a circular telegram dispatched to all the provinces by the chinese gov [ ernment declaring the country would i lose its national credit unless it adopted an attitude towards germany similar to that of the united states is believed here to explain partly the sensitiveness of japan jtext of chinese warning to rebels the telegram sent in april reads : 1 by the declaration of our rup ture with the german government all former friendly relations have ceased and we can gain nothing i by inactivity moreover if we | should take 1:0 further steps we i shall incur the displeasure of the allies i it must be pointed out that owing to the distance we shall have no need to take actual part in the war although we will have to join the allies in name 3 formerly we declared that i i witn respect to the chinese policy ' towards germany we should adopt i an attitude similar to that of the i united states of america and as â– i the latter power has now declared { i war upon germany we cannot re j i main inactive otherwise we will [ lose our national a-edit root wins promise of fight mission head tells council u s j is warring for slavs and urges i aid foreign minister for cabi | net assures republic opposes peace petrograd june 16 via lcn i j don june 17 3:15 a m â€” in a stir 1 ! ring proclamation placing the work i f men's and soldiers delegates in council put themselves on record to-day as irrevocably opposed to a separate peace the proclamation : j was prompted by austrian efforts | to lure russia into a separate peace petrograd june 15 elihu root head of the american mission addressed the council â– of ministers to-night he impressed â€¢ upon russia with great force and â€¢ gravity that upon the outcome of the â– war depends the fate of all democra cies america he informed the mln . isters has entered the war with the 3 single interest of conserving the liberty of all people we have already begun to flftht . or yonr freedom equally with our own he uaid ave ask you to tight 9 | for our freedom equally with yours ij cabinet pledges russ will continue fight s j m tereachenke minister of for ' eign affairs responding to mr root on behalf of the council of ministers - said 1 1 the russian people consider war l inevitable and will continue it the 1 t russians have no imperialistic wishes we know you have none > we shall fiicht tosether to ecurrÂ»^l liberty freedom and happinea fu flfl all the world i am happy to say 1 do not v' v,o '] j cratic republic us memben ara i commissioned anil instructed y a . president who holes m ice 1 as chief executive ot n ore t iian j | 100.000.000 free people by virtue of j popular lection in which mor b | than !â– :. 000,000 votes were freely cast and fairly counted pursuant to law by universal . qual direct | and secret suffrage value ouk freedom , more than wealth j for o ? it i hundred and forty year â– â– our â– â€¢ Ã¼bsllujfrj ; with tht han prrrfilems of self.k s ivi n:iier^^mhÃŸi m n bt.t hak many tr have m^^b lowden in precedent praises assembly by w c i hallowell addresses joint meeting first time in history holds legis lature open to june 29 to call extra sessions if war requires sprixgfield 111 june 16 for the first time in the his tory of Illinois to-night a gov ernor addressed a joint session of the general assembly and thanked it for its achievements in the midst of the whirl of roll calls of the legislature governor lowden appeared escorted by a joint committee the galleries were filled with women in evening gowns the floor was crammed with visitors lowden calls assembly greatest in Illinois mrs lowden sat behind speaker shanahan with her were sirs rich ard j barr and a dozen women whose husbands names are known to every newspaper reader in Illinois governor lowden spoke briefly he thanked the assembly for the con sideration it had given to the meas ures he had recommended in his inaugural address he told the assembly it was the greatest body of its sort ever gath ered in the hundred years of the state's history and that in the his tory making that is ahead he expects the Illinois legislature to live up to the sturd'jy accomplishments of her sons in the past prepared to call emergency sessions by an eleventh hour agreement be tween governor lowden and repub lican leaders the assembly will ad journ sine die june 29 instead of recessinpr through the period of the war the governor will call spe cial sessions in the event emergency legislation is needed were recesseb to be taken it would be possible for members to initiate any sort of measures at any time the assembly came together and the spe cial bills desired by the governor council of defense might ' set back by the conse lling special sessions luer only such matters as r e 1 governor's call film censorship act excludes Chicago in spite of the efforts of a strong lobby the guernsey bill creating a state motion picture censor was passe by the senate 26 to 6 after amendment in committee to exclude Chicago which will continue to oper ate under the funkhouser board other measures of interest to chi cago that were sent to the governor for his signature were those enabling u.s weather forecast Chicago a-.d v-icixity gener ally fair sunday and monday except probably a shower sunday morning rlhlnc temperature frcrt on page 5 part vx spain to join allies in war papal report rome june 16 the papal nuncio at madrid has report ed to the pope that spain's entry into the war on the side of the allies is now likely even king alfonso is convinced that it can not be averted much longer it is stated that spain's intervention will afford the best proof that the war is nearing its end with the defeat of the central powers whosfc internal condition nobody know3 better than the king of spain wilson takes food control pending congress action presi dent orders hoover to begin conservation measures washington june 16 â€” president wilson's request for immediate ac tion on the food control bill resulted in the measure being reported to the senate to-day without committee rec ommendation and it may be reached monday a national voluntary organization is to be effected tn which the women of the country will play an impor tant part herbert c hoover whom the president has appointed food ad ministrator will head this organiza tion the president made public to-day the following letter he wrote to mr hoover june 12 must begin action now my dear mr hoover it seems to me that the inauguration of that portion of the plan for food admin istration which contemplates a na tional mobilization of the great voluntary forces of the country which are ready to work towards saving food and eliminating waste admits of no further delay the approaching harvesting the immediate necessity for wise use and saving not only in food but in all other expenditures the many undirected and overlapping efforts being made towards this end all | press for national direction and in ispiration the women of the nation are al ready earnestly seeking to do their part in this our greatest struggle maintenance of our in ternal ideals and in no direction can they so greatly assist as by enlisting in the service of the food administration and cheerfully ac cepting its direction and advice to provide adequate supplies for the coming year in of absolutely vital importance to the conduct of the war urges dealers to assist i trust therefore that the worn j en of the country will not only re spond to our appeal and accept the pledge to the food administration which you are proposing but that all men also who are engaged in the personal distribution of foods will co-operate with the same earn estness and in the same spirit i give you full authority to under take any step necessary for the proper organization and stimula tion of their efforts cordially and sincerely woodrow wilson income tax in u s yields 330,565,628 washington june ic t e1 e graphed reports to tiie secretary of the treasury to-day indicate that the receipts from the income tax for the fiscal year up to june 15 inclusive were 330 565 628 j0 these figures include 170,037,0.'t9.559 from corpora tions and 160.525,558.21 from indi viduals the first Illinois district in which Chicago is situated shows tv total of 22,9t7,986 of which 10,226 415 is due frjkn individuals cellar yields ruth cruger's bound body roped crushed remains of miss ing n y high school girl hidden under cocchi's shop suspected man located in italy wife resists search attempt made to cover crime evidence new york june 16 â€” the mys tery of ruth cruger was solved to day her body was found under the flooring of the basement workshop of alfredo coochi into which she walked last february to havo her skates repaired the winsome seventeen-year-old schoolgirl for whom the police of every city in the country including Chicago have sought waa murdered brutally when dug from the cellar the body was dressed as the girl had been j the ady she left home the hat j was still on the head and the gloves on the hands but the arms were bound a rough towel wound around the head and an attempt had been made to destroy the body with acid every trinket and detail of dress was in place save where in her struggles in the semi-darkness of the basement her clothes had been torn there was no doubt of her iden tity her father clinched it with a glance at a gold watch he had given her on her birthday woman clears mystery the mystery th:Â»t baffled detectives was solved by a woman who refused to give up the search mrs grace humiston a family friend persisted in believing coochi killed ruth and insisted atl ast on digging beneath the basement of the coochi work shop oooehi the first man arrested after theg irl's disappearance bluffed his way to freedom he convinced the police of his innocencea nd was re leased he fled to italy and is still there hisw ife who remained in the little bicycle repair shop has in sisted he was innocent she threw every obstacle in the way of digging under the basement only two days ago she had the laborers employed by mrs humiston ejected then she si.ld the store and there was a chance to dig di'rigd 10 feet deep the body was buried tea feet be low the concrete flooring with it lay a blood-stained suit of motor cycle togs and around it had been packed rags and bits of clothing and refuse of every description to within four feet of the concrete flooring the body was weighted down with a mixture of earth ashes and ! debris mrs cruger has not been informed | of the finding of the body as she has been ill the father is heartbroken he was led away by sympathizing friends my god my daughter was all he could say ruth cruger the daughter of well to-do mr and mrs henry d cruger utaght a sunday school class and attended wadleigh high school she left home the afternoon of feb ruary 13 to take her skates to cocchi's to be sharpened two poucbmeem on rack she did not return and next morn ing search was begun for her two days later cocchi disappeared it was reported to-night two po licemen are involved they are said to have been friends of cocchi cocchi has been traced to bologna italy steps have been taken to bring him back to this country he cannot be extradited but district i attorney svrann hopes the italian i authorities iio that italy is a.i ally lof the united states will permit this co^j^^^bring bacjt cqcch cermak being i nvesti gated by the judges gemmill and municipal court bailiff chief near fist battle as jurist charges irregularities 50 witnesses are called by com mittee named by bench 150 to be heard lie is passed charges of misapplication of funds made by judge william gemmill of the criminal court against anton j cermalc chief bailiff of the munici pal court were investigated yester day by a special committee of judges on monday the investigation will be continued and at least 150 witnesses it is said will be called a physical encounter between jui'jare uemmill ar.(3 srmalc was nar rowly averted friday when the charges first were made at a meet ing of all the Chicago judges i have received good evidence said judge gemill that funds paid into the bailiffs protective associa tion by its members have been with held by cermak committee named the charges created a btlr among the other judges it was at once agreed that a thorough investigation should be made and a committee was appointed the members are chief justice harry olson of the municipal court and judges stelk hayesa nd fry while the judges were stillin ses sion someone communicated what had happened to cermak he made im mediately for the meeting place room 917 in the city hall and demanded admittance he was kept out but waited near the door until judge gemmill came out i understand that you have charged me with irregularities said cermak in a menacing manner i certainlydid retorted the judge and i repeat it are near blows it's a lie.v cried cermalc you're a liar the judge returned cÂ«rma.k advanced with clenched fist the judge doubled his and waited but just then chief justice olson came between the two and hostilities were averted the first meeting of the in resti gating committee was held yesterday and fifty members of the bailiffs organization were questioned the following statement was issued by cermak last night judge gemmill made the charges because he is to be mayor thomp son's candidate for chief justice o the municipal court when judge olson's term expires two years ago while i was out of the city a collection was taken up among the bailiffs to buy me a diamond star a bailiff attached to judge genimill's court was as sessed 3 â€¢ jttdge objected charge the judge complained when i returned to the city 1 ordered that all the money be returned to the donors members of the bailiffs asso ciation pay 50 cents monthly to the association once a year a picnic is given and thep roceeds which are trom 1,000 to 2,000 also are placed into the association's funds as soon ts i learned of the charges 1 demanded an immediate investigation i am secretary of the united so cieties an organization that was riven to understand by judge gem mill's bailiff when he was a can didate a little more than four years ago that he was in harmony witli the principle we stand for we supported judge gemmill during his campaign s.nce then he has preached pro hibition from the pulpit we feel that h has double crossed gur organization in our bullftio^kre have made statements th^^^v.ci kis attack is a re zeppelin shot down in raid on england london june 17 â€” german air ships made a raid on the east and southeast coast of england early this morning one zeppelin was brought down in flames ac cording to the official report one raider dropped bombs in kent pershing at french front ready to fight confers with general petain british take rheims trenches paris june 16 â€” general john j i pershing the american commander j reached the front to-day he con j erred with general petain com mander in chief of the french ar mies at french headquarisrs the chamber of deputies author ized the remission of all military punishments and an allowance of a j supplementary litre of wine in honor i of the arrival of the american of | ficers anxious to fight during his stay in paris general perahinp was lionized as the man of i the hour i am a soldier and i am here to i fight general pershing told his friends the quicker i get into action the better pleased i will bo genera 1 . pershing has had nu merous requests from americans allied armied for transfer to the american arms many american civilians in france are trying to enlist . no public speech since hte begin ning of the war has so readily touched french paginations as pres , ident wilson's flag day address wilson's speech praised all the newspapers print the speech verbatim under double column head ings the matin says the discourse is certainly the moÃŸt beautiful the clearest and most instructive that he has pro nounced nothintr is more fortifying to us french than to see rising in the world's greatest democracy i on a clear vision of the future alfred capus writes in the figaro there is in president wilson's discourse something particularly new and powerful it 1.4 an analy sis of the present situation in ger i many and a vision of the future j which shows extraordinary pene tration ex-king constantine quits soil of greece london june 16 â€” athens dis patches state that former king con stantlne the queen and crown prince left greecian soil to-day a proc lamation in athens by m jonnart high commissioner for the allies who effected the abdication of constan tine announced to the greek nation the raising of the blockade frick pays 500,000 for prized art pieces new york june 16 â€” henry c frick has acquired a highly prized suite of boucher tapestry furniture a bronze portrait bust of guido d'arezzo by lombard and a six teenth century venetian bust of an tonio gallus by sansovino the cost is said o be 500,000 100,000 bibles with t r message to army new york june 16 â€” a war mes sage from theodore roosevelt will be inserted in each of the 100,000 i biblof to be presented by the new i york bible society to all american i soldiers trho pro to franco germany urged to battle for full indemnity a msterdam june 16 1n ad *Â» dressing the second chamber of saxony on thursday the fi nance minister declared the peo pel must not regard the expendi ture of billions of marks as a burden if they desired to fulfill the great tasks ahead when it was remembered that the war had been forced jfpon them and that the empire's ruler had done everything to prevent it the minister said germany had the claim before god on the ground of justice to full indemni fication that should be the great repara tion he declared which president wilson had proclaimed as the right of the victor russia expels pleace plotter swiss socialist ordred out of country as tool in new german offer petrograd june 16 â€” robert grimm a swiss socialist has ween ordered from russia for his part in the new german attempt to con clude separate peace with russia grimm woh has been playing a prominent role here as the mouth piece of the pacifist international ists denied implication but his ex planation did not satisfy the social ist cabinet members stockholm sweden june 16 germany has made an offer of peace to russia on extremely liberal terms according to the social demokraten the offer was made through mem bers of the swiss federal council simultaneously borne dispatches ( assr-rted the federal council seeing â– no chance of success refused to take i the initiation in peace proposals presumably to disavow efforts indi vidual members may make sext by swiss envoy without qualification the social demokraten publishes the translation i ol a telegram said to have been sent in cipher from the political depart ment of the swiss-federal council to e odier the swiss minister at pe trograd it is dated at bern june 6 and says hoffman a niriuher of the feder al conned authorize you to makr to c-rlnim in liustian socialist pro fessor who returned to russia from switzerland after the revolu tion the following oral communi cations iermany will not undertake nit offensive so lone ax an nrrnnÃŸc [ ment with hus*ln seem possible | after convernntions with nn linnor | tant iiitminssf i am convinced that ; germany aims at a peace with ; russia honorable to both parties with intimate economic mill com mercial relations and financial sup i port to place russia once afraln on ' her feet restititiox provided o interference in the domestic affairs of riixklii n entente cur dinle on poland lithuania and courland in view r the rclnlloi shlp between tlie peoples resti tution of the occupied provinces and l'.Â«i-.i:i on the other hand to klvc back to austria the provinces which xhe has been able to take orville wright is given d sc degree cincinnati 0 june 16 â€” orv:i wright the avlator i.ls awarded tha uetjree of doctor â– â– . inni^^by the univertity j clnclji^^b^^^b j â€” â€” ' , i continued on 6th page 7t n column m final edition (_) this edition consists of (^ j /^^ iâ€”xeivj..1 â€” xeivj 3 â€” city lille s p ] a mtns drama i i 3 automobiles hovlrn sports 1 â€” 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